xv, 207 pages : 21 cm

This work brings together some of the best primary sources on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Through their writings and speeches, we can appreciate the roles they played in the freedom crusade of the 1950s and 1960s. We not only get a good summary of their essential teachings but we also get insight into their individual styles and personalities

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-199) and index

Part 1. Introduction: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s -- Part 2. The documents : words and themes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. 1. Formative influences and ideas. An autobiography of religious development, 1950 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; Pilgrimage to nonviolence, 1960 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; From Nightmare to salvation, 1965 / Malcolm X -- 2. Social ends : racial integration versus separation. The ethical demands for integration, 1963 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; From The Black Revolution, 1963 / Malcolm X ; Independence, not separation, 1964 / Malcolm X -- 3. Means of struggle : nonviolent resistance versus "by any means necessary". Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; From Nonviolence : the only road to freedom, 1966 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; From The Afro-American's right to self-defense, 1964 / Malcolm X ; From On revolution, 1963 / Malcolm X -- 4. On America : dream or nightmare? I have a dream, 1963 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; The white man is a devil : statements on whites, 1965 / Malcolm X ; From God's judgment of white America, 1963 / Malcolm X -- 5. Critiques of rival racial programs and philosophies. Three responses of oppressed groups, 1958 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; On Black Nationalists and Malcolm X, 1965 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; The nightmare of violence : regarding the death of Malcolm X, 1965 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; Black bodies with white heads! 1965 / Malcolm X ; From Message to the grassroots, 1963 / Malcolm X ; King is the white man's best weapon, 1963 / Malcolm X -- 6. Eras of convergence. From Beyond Vietnam, 1967 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; From Where do we go from here? 1967 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; Press conference on return from Africa, 1964 / Malcolm X ; Sincere whites (that coed again), 1964 / Malcolm X ; I'm not a racist, 1964 / Malcolm X ; America can have a bloodless revolution, 1964 / Malcolm X ; From The ballot or the bullet, 1964 / Malcolm X ; All of us should be critics of each other, 1964 / Malcolm X ; My voice helped save America, 1965 / Malcolm X -- Appendixes. A Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X chronology (1925-1968) ; Questions for consideration

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